It seems to be common now for printers NOT to ship with a cable. In the old days of parallel ports, they generally did come with a cable, but now ownersip of a suitable USB cable is assumed.

Thanks Niblue I think in future I'll sub-contract the digital processing. 1 beer (or short) per photograph. Any takers?

I like that dreamy feel to that shot niblue, they way the clouds seem do be doing their own thing.

I took this shot at a local park on one of the hotter days recently
Samuel is trying to catch tadpoles and water snails!

What worries me, is how much beer I'll have to buy to repay all the folks who are improving my images!

Thanks for the kind words, and Matt, that's awesome, I almost didn't recognise my own photograph!

Just back from a week in the Lake District. I'm still wringing out the water from my underpants.

I took a cokin IR filter with me and took this shot at Elterwater


Pentax *ist DS, 16-45 mm DA lens, Cokin IR filter, 1/8 sec at f13 ISO400, handheld.

Back to the drying out and sorting through the rest of the photographs. I think I have quite a bit to learn on the post-processing side for handling IR images.

I did find that if I shaded the eyepiece well, I could make out enough of the scene to frame the shot without guesswork.

I remember seeing a discussion somewhere which suggested that fast chargers were less reliable than slow chargers - in that a slow charger charges each cell individually. I use uniross 2500 mAh AA batteries and use a slow charger at home, and only use the fast charger with a car adapter for emergency recharging on the road. I have no complaints about the lifetime of my batteries!

So what you are saying Matt, is that I should dig out my old anti-static wrist strap, the next time I clean my sensor?

Isn't there a thin coating on the sensor? Would that not provide some insulation from a charge on the cleaning implements?

Yep, SRS stock them http://www.srsmicrosystems.co.uk/index3.asp?id=574&section=Pentax&set=3